Module: Fill Sinks (Planchon/Darboux, 2001)
Copyrights (c) 2003 by Volker Wichmann
Menu: Terrain Analysis > Preprocessing
Description
Depression filling algorithm after Olivier Planchon & Frederic Darboux (2001)

Planchon, O. & F. Darboux (2001):
A fast, simple and versatile algorithm to fill the depressions of digital elevation models.
Catena 46: 159-176

(c) 2003 Volker Wichmann
email: volker.wichmann@geographie.uni-muenchen.de
Parameters
NameTypeIdentifierDescriptionConstraints
Input
DEM Grid (input)DEMdigital elevation model [m]
Output
Filled DEMGrid (output)RESULTprocessed DEM
Options
SlopeFloating pointMINSLOPEminimum slope angle preserved from one cell to the next, zero results in flat areas [Degree]